GTA 5 Has Possibility to Outsell Call of Duty

GTA 5‘s release date has been announced to September 17th, but the game will still be able to outsell Call of Duty this year.

Sterne Agee analyst Arvind Bhatia believes that GTA 5 will be able to top the sales from CoD, and become the biggest selling game of 2013.  Bhatia believes that the production value of the game is $137.5 million, and that about 250 people have been working on the game for five years. Using that estimate, plus a modest selling of only 15 million copies, along with a meager marketing, there would be about  $193.6 million in operating profit for Take-Two.

Furthermore, Bhatia reckons that 18 million copies will be sold within six months. Calculated earnings of this period would then end at Take-Two’s 2014 financial year.